http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/263/article/6/madeThe Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1995Health and safety at workTerritorial watersKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2015-03-03HEALTH AND SAFETY This Order revokes the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1989 and re-enacts its provisions with modifications. The main changes of substance are the application of the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (“the Act”) which are referred to below to wells and to pipelines.The Order applies sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the Act outside Great Britain (article 3) and—within territorial waters adjacent to Great Britain and areas designated under the Continental Shelf Act 1964, to offshore installations and activities on them; to most activities in connection with them; and to certain diving activities (article 4);within the same waters and areas, to wells; to most activities in connection with them; and to activities immediately preparatory to such activities (article 5);within the same waters and areas to pipelines; to pipeline works; and to certain activities in connection with such works (article 6);to the working of a mine and to work for the purpose of or in connection with the working of any part of a mine, within such waters or extending beyond them (article 7); andwithin such waters to various activities including certain construction and similar activities (article 8).Article 9 contains provisions relating to legal proceedings.Article 10 provides that the relevant sections of the Act apply to individuals, whether or not they are British subjects, and to bodies corporate, whether or not incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.Article 11 makes it clear that (with one exception) this Order does not limit or prejudice the effect of other enactments in territorial waters or elsewhere. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1995OrderThe Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001art. 1(2)art. 1(1)Health and Safety at Works etc. Act 1974. (Application outside GB) O 6 1 The prescribed provisions of the 1974 Act shall apply within territorial waters or a designated area to and in relation to— a any pipeline; b any pipeline works; c the following activities in connection with pipeline works— i the loading, unloading, fuelling or provisioning of a vessel; ii the loading, unloading, fuelling, repair and maintenance of an aircraft on a vessel, being in either case a vessel which is engaged in pipeline works. 2 In this article— “pipeline” means a pipe or system of pipes for the conveyance of any thing, together with— any apparatus for inducing or facilitating the flow of any thing through, or through a part of, the pipe or system; any apparatus for treating or cooling any thing which is to flow through, or through part of, the pipe or system; valves, valve chambers and similar works which are annexed to, or incorporated in the course of, the pipe or system; apparatus for supplying energy for the operation of any such apparatus or works as are mentioned in the preceding paragraphs; apparatus for the transmission of information for the operation of the pipe or system; apparatus for the cathodic protection of the pipe or system; and a structure used or to be used solely for the support of a part of the pipe or system; but not including a pipeline of which no initial or terminal point is situated in the United Kingdom or within territorial waters, United Kingdom territorial waters adjacent to Northern Ireland, or a designated area; “pipeline works” means— assembling or placing a pipeline or length of pipeline including the provision of internal or external protection for it; inspecting, testing, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing a pipeline or length of pipeline; changing the position of or dismantling or removing a pipeline or length of pipeline; opening the bed of the sea for the purposes of the works mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of this definition, and tunnelling or boring for those purposes; any activities incidental to the activities described in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of this definition; diving operations in connection with any of the works mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) of this definition or for the purpose of determining whether a place is suitable as part of the site of a proposed pipeline and the carrying out of surveying operations for settling the route of a proposed pipeline.